Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team at Ro. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services
• You will design and implement new applications and enhance existing platform capabilities while contributing to the evolution of Ro’s technical architecture
• You will also help define the technical roadmap, owning initiatives from ideation through design, implementation, and maintenance
• Senior Software Engineers at Ro are in positions of high-impact with broad accountability and influence across engineering teams and business stakeholders
• Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
• Operate as an owner within your team’s domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization
• Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap
• Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision membership
• Equity for all team members
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangement
• Well-stocked office with snacks and bi-weekly free lunches
• Gym, learning, and development stipends

• Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks like FastAPI or Django, with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
• Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products
• Strong sense of ownership with the ability and desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems
• Experience architecting, designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries-backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
• Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services